Lead Housing Navigator

The mission of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for homeless and at-risk families, children, and individuals throughout Colorado. The Coalition advocates for and provides a continuum of housing and a variety of services to improve the health, well-being, and stability of those it serves.

The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless seeks a Lead Housing NavigatorThis position coordinates housing opportunities for families/individuals across all housing subsidy programs at CCH and its partners. This position supervises the Housing Navigation team and is responsible for identifying rental opportunities for clients and is the liaison between the service teams, client and the landlord, maintaining active engagement with scattered site landlords and collaborating with Renaissance Property Management Corporation. This position is located at 2135 Stout St., Denver, Colorado 80205and reports to the Associate Director of Housing Assistance.

Coalition Benefits

In addition to the unique challenges and extraordinary rewards of our work, eligible Coalition employees enjoy a rich benefits package, including:

• Health insurance coverage on the first day of employment: full-time employees contribute only 1% of their earnings for their own health coverage and no more than 4% of their earnings for coverage of eligible dependents. We're proud to offer same- and opposite-sex domestic partner coverage;
• Dental, vision, and flexible spending/dependent care/public transit accounts;
• Free basic life insurance and long-term disability coverage;
• Dollar-for-dollar retirement plan matching contributions up to 5% of earnings;
• Extensive paid time-off, including 8 holidays, 12 days of sick leave, and three weeks of vacation for new full-time employees in their first full year.

Essential Job Functions

1. Leads Housing Navigation team ensuring the availability of quality housing units for program participants.
2. In collaboration with Associate Director of Housing Assistance, recruits, hires, and trains new members of the Housing Navigation Team.
3. Supports the Rehousing Collaborative project, and its partners, with housing placement services.
4. Responds to escalated landlord concerns in coordination with appropriate supportive service team.
5. Identifies housing units, develops and maintains positive relationships with local property owners and landlords.
6. Conducts and/or assists with housing searches, housing orientations, HQS inspections/lease ups, re-certifications, and move-out inspections (as appropriate) for multiple CCH housing programs. Facilitates weekly housing navigation team meetings.
7. Provides orientation/training for Housing Specialists on CCH Housing Navigation services.
8. Assists participants with completing housing applications either in the office or in the community. Assist clients referred through OneHome with navigating systems required for housing placement.
9. Demonstrates competency in all data base systems including Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), and Elite.
10. Guides community members through process of housing orientation and lease up, in coordination with housing program manager, housing specialist, intake coordinator and case manager.
11. Serves as a liaison between landlord/property owners, community members, and service provider to help facilitate ongoing supportive services.
12. Helps facilitate relocation process as needed including identifying new unit and completing all necessary forms for relocation.
13. Develops and coordinates Housing Search trainings for clients and staff and Landlord Orientations in the community.
14. Collaborates with Coalition programs and outside service providers to ensure a coordination of care for program families/individuals.
15. Consults regularly with supervisor regarding training needs, operational issues surrounding intakes, and programmatic needs.
16. Networks with community agencies, especially homeless service and employment service providers, for the purpose of coordination, and/or development of services. This might include attending community meetings, committee work, and/or presentations to interested agencies.
17. Maintains a work environment that is rooted in respect for others; that values anti-oppression, inclusiveness and builds workforce diversity; and that fosters cooperation and teamwork.
18. Maintains current and complete COVID-19 vaccination(s), as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health authorities.
19. Performs other duties as assigned by manager.

Employee must be able to perform essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation and without posing a direct threat to safety or health of self or others. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Qualifications Summary

1. Bachelor's degree in a related field required. Experience may be substituted.
2. Prior experience working in field related to housing programs required.

WHERE A CANDIDATE IS PLACED IN THE COMPENSATION RANGE DEPENDS ON TOTAL RELEVENT YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless is committed to delivering services, making employment-related decisions, selecting volunteers, and selecting vendors without regard to age over 40, race, sex, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, medical condition related to pregnancy, military status, or any other applicable status protected by law.

Other details

• Job Family Social Services
• Pay Type Hourly
• Min Hiring Rate $24.15
• Max Hiring Rate $28.41

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